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Re: "Priority is given to parents' decisions."

Originally Posted by kite

Hi dear teachers.

"Priority is given to parents' decisions in a family."
"Parents' decisions are given the priority in a family."

Any wrong in my both sentences above?

Your sentences are grammatical, but they make little sense to me. Who is giving these decisions priority -- the children? That pretty much goes without saying. "Priority" refers to one thing being more important than other things. For example:

In custody disputes involving an adopted child, priority is usually given to the birth parent or parents.
In the admissions process, priority is given to minority applicants.

Re: "Priority is given to parents' decisions."

Yes I admit that my sentences were not much better in meaning. There what I wanted to focus on is I have always seen the word "priority" is used like "priority is given to ......", at the beginning of a sentence and most of the time in a passive sentence but I wanted to know whether it can be used putting in the middle of a sentence (passive), for example "Minority applicants are given the priority in the admission process.". Considering all of your comments I think it can be used. Am I right?
Let me give you another example; "The employee is paid the salary at the end of each month." = "The salary is paid to the employee at the end of each month."

Re: "Priority is given to parents' decisions."

Originally Posted by kite

Yes I admit that my sentences were not much better in meaning. There what I wanted to focus on is I have always seen the word "priority" is used like "priority is given to ......", at the beginning of a sentence and most of the time in a passive sentence but I wanted to know whether it can be used putting in the middle of a sentence (passive), for example "Minority applicants are given the priority in the admission process.". Considering all of your comments I think it can be used. Am I right?
Let me give you another example; "The employee is paid the salary at the end of each month." = "The salary is paid to the employee at the end of each month."

Yes, but with minor revisions. In your first sentence, I would eliminate "the" before priority. We don't know if that category is the only priority given.

In your second sentence I would change "the" to "a" after "paid". In the third, I would change the first word to "a". It is likely that the salaries are different.